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Surgery: consider before adding another medication?

New Orleans—Adding a third or fourth medication to a glaucoma patient's therapeutic regimen has many drawbacks but a few potentially positive aspects as well and should be considered on an individual patient basis, said Shan C. Lin, MD, assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital.

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